Blog posts are most pleasing when they give us simple answers, even if negative answers. Even if we disagree with a blog post, having it come out with a simple solution gives us a sense of control, even as we mock the proposed solution. It’s disturbingly similar to sporting events. As soon as the other [...]
Posts Tagged ‘christianity’
The scourge of Christianity
Friedrich Nietzsche taught us what the morality of the original founders of society was: “do what needs to be done, do not look back in regret, and do not waste time with feelings of guilt.” The aristocrats Nietzsche described held raw and remorseless marching towards one’s goal as the highest virtue. This morality was reversed once the lower classes gained [...]
There are no radical ideas
Sometime in my early twenties I realized that “radical ideas” are marketing twists, not actually anything radical. There is nothing new under the sun, and nothing all that surprising, unless of course you venture away from reality and then you can have unicorns and eudaemoniac imaginary friends. The universe itself is mind-blowing, but that mind-blowingness [...]
